IT MAY BE SMART, BUT IS IT LEGAL?

摘要

Before your shop tackles a vacuum-less upgrade for you, they'll need to do some regula-tory homework to make sure they hand you back an air-plane that's airworthy without a vacuum system. The first stop in the research process should be the aircraft's type certificate data sheet, or TCDS. Thankfully, the FAA has collected all of its TCDS documents in one place and made them available on the agency's Web site, at tinyurl. com/avsafe-tcds. (Even if you're not planning to go all-electric, you should have this document in your airplane's paperwork.)